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From: Maxime Robert-Schreyers <rsm@××××××.be>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved]
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:42:50
Message-Id: 4446AD8C.505@skynet.be
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Question about net.eth0 and the handbook [partially solved] by Richard Fish
1 Richard Fish wrote:
2
3 >On 4/19/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>We did it in the correct order. He's rebooted into Linux (sans LiveCD)
7 >>and says he has network. I'd still like to know how
8 >>if /etc/init.d/net.eth1 is pointing to /etc/init.d/net.eth0, how does
9 >>
10 >>
11 >
12 >AFAIK both net.eth0 and net.eth1 should be symbolic links to net.lo.
13 >
14 >http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=1
15 >
16 >The handbook has a slight gramattical error in the description, but
17 >the command given:
18 >
19 > ln -s net.lo net.eth0
20 >
21 >will create a symbolic link named net.eth0 pointing at net.lo.
22 >
23 >-Richard
24 >
25 >
26 >
27 The scripts are the same, but they use different parts of the config files.
28
29 BTW: disregard my previous post i hadn't seen the problem was fixed
30 (it's late here).
31
32 Maxime
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